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Health, Sports & Psychology
Early widowhood: navigating a way through grief
You or someone else you know may be experiencing grief as a widow or widower and finding a way to cope through loss. In this article, Hazel Carter, who cared for her husband through motor neurone disease to the end of his life, describes her experience of grief and becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ambiguous loss: what it is and why is it important?
Maybe you’ve felt a profound sadness and hope about something at the same time, but unsure if that is grief. Explore this further with Neil Thompson’s examples about ambiguous loss and what it means.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Learning about the climate and ecological crisis can be very disturbing and overwhelming. We may feel a variety of different emotions often grouped under the umbrella label of eco-anxiety. But what is eco-anxiety and how can we learn to live with the reality of the crisis without falling apart?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Harry Potter and death and bereavement
What does the Harry Potter series have in common with our Muggle world when it comes to death and bereavement? Dr Sam Murphy explores.
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Education & Development
Teaching the First World War
This free course, Teaching the First World War, is designed for history teachers and their pupils. It provides a wide range of visual, textual and oral sources to enrich the teaching of the First World War. It covers familiar and less familiar aspects of the history of the First World War, ranging from the debate on the origins of the war and ...
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History & The Arts
Life After Death
Suzanne Newcombe discusses what happens to us after we die in this short video..
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Walk the walk: encountering death and dying spaces in hospital
For some staff in hospitals, dealing with serious injury and death may be a common occurrence. But it is often unchartered territory for family and friends when called in to visit someone they know. It can be a time of heightened emotions and confusion.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
How do bereaved fathers find support after losing a baby shortly before or after birth? This article looks at men’s experiences of belonging to a Sands United football team (the stillbirth and neonatal death society).
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Bereavement is something many of us will experience during our working lives. A recent survey set out to find out more about bereavement support for staff in UK HEIs.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
This free course, Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families, stems from research that explored how to improve the care and support for older people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge others, and their families.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Was the late Queen Elizabeth’s death an example of ‘ordinary dying’? This article examines what it means and what this case study reveals.